Locals who wax nostalgic about a department store that stood on State Road 60 for close to 50 years will be charmed by a new holiday ornament that depicts in 24-karat gold-plated a longtime landmark that closed in 2000. ...more

November 4, 2009

Please allow me to use this medium to thank many people. ...more

November 20, 2008

Villagers who fled fighting in this rebel-held town trickled home Thursday to find bodies of more than a dozen men in civilian clothes. They accused rebel leader Laurent Nkunda's forces of the slayings. ...more

November 7, 2008

Guadalupe Luevano turned 15 on July 3, and in Mexican tradition, that age is a special milestone, so her family threw a quinceanera. ...more

July 28, 2008

Pasco County sheriff's deputies arrested nearly a dozen men Friday in an undercover sting aimed at prostitution. ...more

July 26, 2008

Andrew Kobak, or "Master Drew" as he preferred, avoided prison Wednesday, thanks to the lies and questionable testimony of his former sex slave, Alyssandra Cardillo. ...more

July 17, 2008

The Bush administration announced Monday that it intends to bring capital murder charges against half a dozen men allegedly linked to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, based partly on information the men disclosed to FBI and military questioners without the use of coercive interrogation tactics. ...more

February 12, 2008

To Vietnam veterans, the 1968 military operation known as the Tet Offensive was as pivotal in the war as D-Day was in World War II. ...more

February 3, 2008

Talk Is Cheap The Zephyrhills Jaycees had a booth on Veterans Day with an assortment of Christmas cards for citizens to sign for the troops. The booth was on the main thoroughfare, with the cards displayed on the tables alongside numerous pens and chairs in the shade so people could be comfortable while signing the cards. ...more

November 19, 2007